United States Federal Circuit - September 2009 Opinion Summaries

Bd. of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr., Univ. v. Roche Molecular Sys. Inc.

Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent case involving claim methods for quantifying HIV in human blood samples, district court's judgment is affirmed in part and vacated and...

Advanced Software Design Corp. v. Fed. Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent infringement case involving a method for detecting fraudulent bank checks, district court's dismissal of certain counts of plaintiff's...

Stockton E. Water Dist. v. US

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Government Contracts, Government Law, Public Utilities, Water Law
In plaintiffs' case involving claims that defendant-federal government failed to provide the quantities of water that it agreed to make available...

Juneau v. Dep't of Justice

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance's (BJA) denial of claim for benefits by plaintiff and her three children under the Public Safety...

Reizenstein v. Shinseki

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
Decision of the Veterans Court holding that 38 C.F.R. section 3.343(a) does not apply to assignments of retrospective staged ratings that include a...

Walls v. US

Administrative Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
Judgment of the United States Court of Federal Claims denying petitioner's claim for back pay based on improper transfer after serving in the Navy for...

Arctic Slope Native Ass'n, Ltd. v. Sebelius

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Contracts, Government Contracts, Government Law, Indian Law
In plaintiffs' Contract Disputes Act (CDA) claims against the Indian Health Service (IHS), the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals' dismissal of...

Slattery v. US

Banking Law, Contracts, Government Contracts, Government Law, M&A
In plaintiffs' breach of contract case against United States, acting through the FDIC, the Court of Federal Claims' judgment is affirmed in part,...

Qingdao Taifa Group Co., Ltd. v. US

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law, International Law, International Trade
United States Court of International Trade's order enjoining liquidation of entries for importers of hand trucks manufactured and exported by...

Phillips v. Shinseki

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Government Benefits, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
Veterans Court's refusal to permit the daughters of deceased veteran-claimants to be substituted for their fathers is reversed and remanded where: 1)...